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bright red, infundibuliform-campanulate, "2 to "3 in. wide at the throat 

 and from -5 to -85 in, long ; the Hmb spreading, -5 to -75 in. across, 

 ' divided into 5, broad, blunt lobes, the tube 'SS to -5 in, long. Capsule 

 unknown. 



Perak, on Gunong Batu Pateh at an elevation of 4.500 feet : Wray 

 231 ; Scortechini 345b. 



4. Ehododendkon perakense, n. sp., King & Gamble. Epi- 

 phytic ; a small shrub with very scaly young branches as thick as a 

 crow-quill. Leaves very coriaceous, obovate or broadly oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, much narrowed to the base, the edges recurved ; upper surface 

 olivaceous when dry, at first with a few large scales but ultimately 

 glabrous, reticulate, the midrib depressed ; lower surface dark brown, 

 with persistent large dark scales in pits, the midrib very thick and 

 prominent ; main-nerves 2 (rarely 3) pairs, spreading, very prominent 

 on the under surface, and, like the midrib, with persistent large dark 

 scales ; length -6 to -8 in. ; breadth -3 to -4 in, ; petioles about •! in. long. 

 Umbels terminal, 3- to 5-flowered, covered in bud by broad rounded 

 deciduous bracts with ciliate edges ; pedicels -25 to -3 in. long, slightly 

 scaly. Floiuers -35 to -4 in. long. Calyx shallow, cupular, its edges 

 wavy. Corolla bright yellow, narrowly campanulate, the mouth with 

 broad, slightly spreading lobes. Stamens not exserted ; filaments 

 glabrous, anthers short. Ovary sub-glabrous ; style not exserted ; 

 stigma clavate, truncate. Caijsule -3 in. long, dehiscing by 5 straight 

 untwisted valves. 



Perak, at an elevation of 7,000 feet : Wray 1574. 



5. Ehododendron Scoetechinii, n. sp., King & Gamble. Shrubby, 

 epiphytic or terrestrial, when the latter sometimes sub-arboreous ; 

 young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, smooth, terete. Leaves 

 very coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-rotund or obovate, the apex obtuse 

 and sometimes faintly notched, the base cuneate, the edges recurved ; 

 upper surface dark olivaceous-brown when dry, glabrous, shining, 

 depressed-reticulate ; lower surface of a uniform warm brown, not 

 reticulate, pitted and minutely scaly ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spread- 

 ing, depressed on the upper surface, and raised on the lower (some- 

 times very much so) ; midrib much depressed on the upper surface 

 and prominent on the lower (when dry) ; length 1-25 to 2 in. ; breadth 

 •75 to 1-25 in. ; petioles "1 to "15 in. long, scaly. Umbels terminal, 4- to 

 7-flowered ; the pedicels unequal, -5 to 1 in. long (longer in fruit). 

 Flowers about -75 in. long. Calyx short, cupular, with many rounded 

 teeth. Corolla yellow (sometimes very pale), "75 in. long, widely 

 funnel-shaped, the mouth about -6 in. across, with 5 deep, broadly 

 ovate, slightly spreading lobes, the outer surface with many dark- 



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